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cabbage night

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
cab-bage night
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.

Etymology

* Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night. * Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.

Inflected Forms

Cabbage Nights (plural)

Synonyms

list in Mischief Night

Questions

What does cabbage night mean?
A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.
Where does cabbage night come from?
* Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night. * Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.

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